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①As it was published in 1935, Mules and Men, Zora Neale Hurston’s landmark collection of folktales, may not have been the book that its author first had in mind. ②In this anthropological study, Hurston describes in detail the people who tell the stories, often even inserting herself into the storytelling scene.?③Evidently, however, Hurston had prepared another version, a manuscript that was recently discovered and published after having been forgotten since 1929. ④This version differs from Mules and Men?in that it simply records stories, with no descriptive or interpretive information.

①作者觀點(diǎn)

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②事實(shí) ? ③轉(zhuǎn)折事實(shí)

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? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ④順承事實(shí)

①While we cannot know for certain why Hurston’s original manuscript went unpublished during her lifetime, it may have been because publishers wanted something more than a transcription of tales. ②Contemporary novelist and critic John Edgar Wideman has described Black literature as the history of a writing that sought to “escape its frame,” in other words, as the effort of Black writers to present?the stories of Black people without having to have a mediating voice to explain the stories to a non-Black audience.?③In this, Hurston may have been ahead of her time.

①作者觀點(diǎn)

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②J.E.W的觀點(diǎn)

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③作者觀點(diǎn)

1. Select the sentence that suggests a possible reason why Hurston wrote the version of Mules and Men?that was published in 1935. 句子功能變體

二段①“While … tales.”

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2. The passage suggests that Hurston may have done which of the following in preparing her original version? 推斷，一段末句

E

A. Discussed?her mode of presentation with her publisher before writing the first draft, in order to reduce the possibility of misunderstanding. 沒有證據(jù)

B. Shortened?her presentation of the stories to the bare minimum in order to be able to present more folklore material. 沒有證據(jù)

C. Put it aside for several decades in order to maximize?its potential audience when it was published 沒有證據(jù)

D. Reluctantly agreed to reshape it in order to take out various elements?with which her publisher had been dissatisfied. 沒有證據(jù)

E. Chose not to include editorial commentary, in order to present the stories on their own terms. 符合

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3. Replacement of the word “present” with which of the following results in the least change in meaning for the passage?

C

A. hand over 交出，移交 to yield control of?

B. donate

C. offer

D. propose

E. submit

背景拓展：

Zora Neale Hurston (January 7, 1891 – January 28, 1960) was an American author, anthropologist, and filmmaker. She portrayed racial struggles in the early-20th-century American South and published research on Hoodoo.?The most popular of her four novels is?Their Eyes Were Watching God, published in 1937. She also wrote more than 50 short stories, plays, and essays.?

Mules and Men?is a 1935?autoethnographical?collection of African-American folklore collected and written by anthropologist?Zora Neale Hurston.?The book explores stories she collected in two trips: one in?Eatonville?and?Polk County, Florida, and one in?New Orleans.?Hurston's decision to focus her research on Florida came from a desire to record the cross-section of black traditions in the state. In her introduction to?Mules and Men, she wrote, "Florida is a place that draws people—white people from all over the world, and Negroes from every Southern state surely and some from the North and West".?Hurston documented 70 folktales during the Florida trip, while the New Orleans trip yielded a number of stories about?Marie Laveau?and other?voodoo?traditions.

The book embraces both her own re-immersion in the folklore of her childhood, and a desire to document those traditions as part of the emergent anthropological sciences.?Subsequently, the book has been described as an important text for the canonization of Hurston in both American and African-American literature, and in developing fields such as?ethnography?and?critical race theory.

The work has a significant legacy in African-American literature and anthropology.?Franz Boas, her academic mentor and the writer of the book's preface, and the father of American anthropology, wrote that "It is the great merit of Miss Hurston's work that she entered into the homely life of the southern Negro" with the "charm of a loveable personality and of a revealing style."